I was unsurprised to discover that signing up to political parties has, in the last 100 years, become an increasingly unfashionable pursuit. In an age which promotes individual identity, people are reluctant to surrender themselves to an institution that they do not feel fully encompasses their worldview. Rather than committing to an unwieldy mass of policies, [...]

It is often said that the Labour Party is a broach church. The best we could manage was a flooded tent, although at least it was a red one. Each year the Labour Club sends volunteers to the Leeds and Reading festivals to work the festival bars, and in return they get a free ticket [...]

Michael Gove is destroying education. Free schools, forced academies, and a crackpot curriculum are succeeding in alienating teachers and condemning pupils to a nightmarish concoction of parental choice, private sector involvement, and government authoritarianism. Yet whilst the self-righteous weasel proceeds in sentencing thousands of children to a sub-par education, where on earth is Stephen Twigg? [...]